Structural Adversarial Objectives For Self-Supervised Representation Learning
Primary Area: unsupervised, self-supervised, semi-supervised, and supervised representation learning
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Keywords: Self-supervised Representation Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks
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TL;DR: Within GAN framework, we propose new training objectives designed to enhance the discriminator's capability for self-supervised feature learning.
Abstract: Within the framework of generative adversarial networks (GANs), we propose objectives that task the discriminator for self-supervised representation learning via additional structural modeling responsibilities. In combination with an efficient smoothness regularizer imposed on the network, these objectives guide the discriminator to learn to extract informative representations, while maintaining a generator capable of sampling from the domain. Specifically, our objectives encourage the discriminator to structure features at two levels of granularity: aligning distribution characteristics, such as mean and variance, at coarse scales, and grouping features into local clusters at finer scales. Operating as a feature learner within the GAN framework frees our self-supervised system from the reliance on hand-crafted data augmentation schemes that are prevalent across contrastive representation learning methods. Across CIFAR-10/100 and an ImageNet subset, experiments demonstrate that equipping GANs with our self-supervised objectives suffices to produce discriminators which, evaluated in terms of representation learning, compete with networks trained by contrastive learning approaches.
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Submission Number: 3531
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